Last night's Social media cafe returned to the Northern in Tib Street Manchester and was ostensibly to be a discussion on the future direction of the event which has now been going for 12 months.
Prior to the discussion,November in Manchester gave a short presentation.
The idea is to create six fictional characters who will be blogging, tweeting and filming their lives across Manchester during the four weeks in November.
It is perhaps the ultimate in social media crowd sourcing with people being asked to send in photos and video.These will become the background of the novel
It will revolve around two characters and will be a romantic drama.The two will not initially know each other but will ultimately fall in love.
The aim is two fold.To explore what social media can do but also whether it will support a novel.
So if you want to get involve take a look at the site and get in touch through twitter
Onto the discussion hosted in three groups by Sarah Hartley,Ian Forrester and Julian Tait
Sarah has already posted a good round up on her blog
The opinions being that the venue needed to rotate,and that the skills, knowledge, talents could be utilised for a wider purpose in helping the Manchester community.
The latter being an important point and one which I for one am wholly behind.
I have probably been as guilty as anyone of talking about social media,new media,new journalism but perhaps now is the time for action.Let's put all these ideas and fantastic tools into practice.
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